Economic and Environmental Role of Wetlands

Interview with Nick Davidson, Ramsar Convention’s Deputy Secretary General at CBD, COP11. The key role that rapidly diminishing wetlands play in supporting human life and biodiversity needs to be recognized and integrated into decision-making as a vital component of the transition to a resource-efficient, sustainable world economy, according to a new TEEB report released today.

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Wed, Aug 20, 2014

Official Opening ceremony of UNEP's home in Nairobi. From left; Njoroge Mungai, First Chair of UNEP’s governing council, Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s President at the time and Maurice Strong, First UNEP Executive Director.